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RhymeEntire Wordrefractory rhyme (word with no common rhyme), example of [8-14,208,9-16,47,205,13-179,180,14-87,21-165,23-209,24-23,48,88,26-109,29-234,34-100,36-223]
see "Refractory Rhyme" article
eye rhyme or sight rhyme (endings spelled alike but pronounced differently), incl. snowplow words [9-47,10-73,153,36-23,137,221,38-83,184,218,42-249,TJ3-88,IN1-46]
common words: cow & blow
common words: tough & though & through & bough
heyday word (compound whose parts rhyme by ear but not by eye) [36-221]
common words: heyday & fourscore & redhead & sweetmeat
stinky pinky or hinky pinky (rhyming two-word answer to a definition) [39-187,44-166]
e.g. flower power; hairy Larry
e.g. grab a cab (trucker) = hijack a truck
a. homophone pair phrase (two homophones forming a phrase that answers a definition) [18-235]
e.g. naked grizzly = bare bear; female deer's money = doe's dough
amphisbaenic rhyme (backward rhyme) [3-168,39-187]
uncommon words: scram & Marx
common words: gulls & slug
common words: reed & deer
rhyme with no shared letters [41-266,42-14]
common words: day & weigh
common words: quay & bee & ski
common words: stiff & glyph
rime riche (rhyme words are homophones) [WW53.3-22]
e.g. A diet change to slim my waist: / pre-packaged meal-boxes expand my waste.
e.g. Shuffled shoes with worn out soles: / worn by folks with weary souls.
holorime (two lines that sound alike) [2-142,3-101,TJ3-88]
e.g. Heathen's cauldron bored a lad in serge. / He thence called her on board Aladdin's Urge.
e.g. Gall, amant de la reine, alla, tour magnanime, / Galamment, de l'arene a la Tour Magne, a Nimes.
monorhyme verse (every line rhymes on one sound) [43-57,43-236]
e.g. you, billet-doux, through, coup ...
alliteration (successive words beginning with the same sound) [TJ2-6,TJ3-37,TJ3-84]
e.g. Gone Girl, King Kong, What Women Want, Wild Wild West
broken rhyme (word split across a line break so that part of it rhymes) [16-49]
e.g. po- / ring- / -er rhymed with orange
longest rhyme (rhyme spanning the most syllables: masculine, feminine, triple ... septuple) [9-47,9-87]
e.g. blunderheadednesses / dunderheadednesses (sextuple)
e.g. consubstantiality / nonsubstantiality (septuple)
near rhyme or rine (pair that almost rhymes) [8-230,9-47]
e.g. Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top / When the wind blows, the cradle will rock (rine)
e.g. hurt-work, seeds-preach, believe-melody ("Have A Real Nice Day")
rhyming slang (word replaced by a phrase that rhymes with it, often cut short) [16-174,18-156]
e.g. Royal Mint = bint; Canberra Rex = sex
uniquely rhyming pair (word that has exactly one rhyme in English) [24-48]
uncommon words: fascist & brashest
uncommon words: talc & catafalque
common words: kiln & Milne
Subset of Wordendings, most [9-59,86]assonance and consonance (syllables alike in vowel only, or in consonants only; with rhyme and alliteration the kinds of syllable resemblance) [10-154]
e.g. love & duck (assonance); love & live (consonance)
common words: ripple & people (consonance)
echo verse and leonine verse (line endings echoed as answers; middle of each line rhymes with its end) [12-116]
e.g. O who will show me those delights on high? / Echo. I. (Herbert, Heaven)
e.g. leonine verse: the middle of each line rhymes with its end
rhyming-pair prose (prose whose words come in consecutive rhyming pairs) [24-43]
e.g. space, place; tacky khaki; rotten cotton; better sweater; Choose shoes, wear pair
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